Extracting Color Channels When I first started messing around with manipulating colors in Flash 5, I couldn't figure out a simple way to extract individual channels from a hex color...
Manipulating Color Channels Color channel values are simply integers that range from 0 (0x00) to 255 (0xFF). As such, you can use just about any math operators you want to...
getColorBoundsRect (BitmapData.getColorBoundsRect method) public getColorBoundsRect(mask:Number, color:Number, ) : Rectangle Determines a rectangular region that fully encloses all pixels of a specified color within the bitmap image. For example,...
threshold (BitmapData.threshold method) public threshold(sourceBitmap:BitmapData, sourceRect:Rectangle, destPoint:Point, operation:String, threshold:Number, , , ) : Number Tests pixel values in an image against a specified threshold and sets pixels that pass...
Binary Basics In everyday life, you deal with numbers using a base 10, or decimal, representation. This means that each digit in the number is given a value 10 times...
Illustration of a woman silhouette with design elements for a classic retro lookCreate a new file with a resolution of 500x400 pixels. Then paint the new background in the...
Three girls posing in the night Illustration Let's learn how to create an illiustration. You can get your favorite photo and try to do the same steps....
Create Apple Ipod Nano skin Learn how to create the newest iPod... the NANO. This version is the most thin of them all. I find it a bit weird,...
Retro Dancers illustrationWe will learn how to create a retro silhouette wallpaperWe create a new background with the dimensions of 500x400, 72 dpi and paint it with the color having...
Before you can add on-demand (prerecorded) video to your web page, you must acquire the video and encode it, which involves converting it to the Macromedia Flash video (FLV) format....
Working with Streaming Video As you've seen in the previous sections of this article, the media components are the heart of the template and the controls for the display. They...
Embedding Video Within SWF files Since the introduction of Flash MX and Flash Player 6, multimedia developers have been able to embed video within SWF files by importing video and...